Bill Text: NY S07875 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides that within amounts appropriated, the commissioner of education is authorized and directed to award comprehensive school security grants to every public, parochial and private school in the state; makes related provisions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-03-06 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S07875 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S07875-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          7875
                    IN SENATE
                                      March 6, 2018
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law,  in  relation  to  the  comprehensive
          school security grant program
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 411 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 411. Comprehensive school security grant program. 1. Within  amounts
     4  appropriated for the installation and operation of comprehensive securi-
     5  ty  systems  in  every  school  of the state, the commissioner is hereby
     6  authorized and directed to award grants to every public,  parochial  and
     7  private  school in the state. Such grants shall be for the total capital
     8  costs of quick capacity smart sensor threat detection,  and  360  degree
     9  security  awareness  including  services,  expenses  and indirect costs.
    10  Grantees receiving funding pursuant to this subdivision  may  expend  no
    11  more  than  five  percent  of grants for administration and no more than
    12  five percent for grantee training.
    13    2. In the event the appropriation for the purposes of this section  in
    14  any year is insufficient to pay all claims pursuant to this subdivision,
    15  the  commissioner  shall  pay  such claims on a prorated basis among all
    16  schools filing such claims until the appropriation is exhausted.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15016-01-8
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